Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

. Thursday, March Isl; 187 Tr

Now Is dio timo lo P l*,t f.«a Iroofl. • ■ . > i r* v Those littlo frogs fnako monotonous music. ■ ;;; - -iV * Slight of hand show at tho Court House, to-night. Quoonsware arid g&«*wiiro at * J C. C. Stair’s. . ~.., Every land owner should sftt Out trees now. ■ ■ .«•» ■ ■»— Plenty of spring weather and 'grass is growing finely. ! Table and pocket cutlery and spoons at . C. 0. ftTAHB’S, . Vioo President Colfai lids our thanks for late numbers of tho Congressional Glob*. Apples (green) aro bringing 75 3o 80 cents a bushel, eggs 10 cents n salt pork 10 to 12 cents a pound, butter 15 cents a pound. Large variety of lamps, lamp Chini neys and burners at L. C. fcTARK s The Iroquois Library acknowledges the receipt of six volumes of Itcports of the Paris Exposition from our Congressman. X.

Some very'fine salmon aro reported to find their way out of the .Iroquois on to tho tables of those who delight in such luxuries, notwithstanding the superlative protection alfordod by the fish law. Bplendid sugar, sugar sand and fine candies for cake making at C. C. Starr’s. Last week tho Commissioners rented the Poor Farm to Mr. Jacob M. Troxcl, for 8320, payable quarterly. Troxel contracts to keep . such paupers as may bo placed in his charge, for $2 per week, The winter - term of the Rensselaer graded school will closo next Friday. It has been well conducted ond gives better -satisfaction than "any previous tcrmß for at least five years past. Business and address cards, colored and white, kept in stock and printed to order at this office. Golden Hough, a young lad of 13 on I t sununbrs, was fined $5 and costs before J usticc Howard, last Thursday, for disturbing a writing school. .About twenty-five other boys in the place will bo “wise to take warning and roform.

A few Justices’ and Constables’ blanks for sale at tills office, cheaper than the paper can be bought to write them on..' . ' Ileavyif&U of rain Tuesday night •with thunder and wind. Thermometer ranging among the sixties. — Roads muddy. Ruds bursting, and grass growing finely. Frogs, bluebirds and other water-fowl have been singing for two weeks. The County Clerk, M. L. Spitler, Esq., lias given notice that the March term, 1871, of the Jasper Circuit Court will be opened next Monday", (March 20th). Subsequent information states that Judge Vinton wilMsonvono the court and adjourn until the week following. Houses, lots and a farm for Balo or rent cheap and on good terms of payment. Call an onco on Thompson & Bbo., Bank Building, up Stairs. January 30tli, 18tl. At their session last week, the CommissiQjncrß authorized the Auditor to notify dealers in stationery that on the socond Tuesday iu April, 1871, they will reoeivo proposals, and award the contract, to furnish statignpvy for the use of the officers of Jasper county. . Married, Sunday 'March 12th, 1871, by Justice E. T. Harding, Mr< Cyrus- W. Ball, of Lafayette, and Miss Lavlna Randle, of Barkley township. The happy couple have our best wishes. May prosperity attend them, and may their lives be long with perpetual happiness. The lovely bride has thanks for her lD( j remembrance. Rest quality of envelopes and paper for business nu n kept on hand and neatly printer! to order, at this office. We furnish printed envelopes andletter paper, equal in quality and printing, cheaper than they can bo obtained from abroad after adding transport■ntion oharges. A* fellow answering to the cognomen of. Julius Perron and, labeled “Watohmaker from Geneva, Switzerland,” who had been tinkering s and boarding in this place for six weeks or|so, left for parts unknown early Thursday morning last, taking with him » couple of hundred dollars worth of watches that had been loft with him for repair. No "effort has boon made to oapturu the tbi<»£

' ®it"Dr. Kellqy inkue all khidtuof farm produce lor Photographs. ■WWW—• " '»IM Lovers ftf Aropinal iuxqriep should mto those BrAgnificoht ©ranges at tno post nfttflfr Giqhos of nectar inolcscd ip ejsstio gold. | U There js mow not a licansod dramshop in tins county, and what is more, there is no immediate prospoct that anybody willobtaifi license to-establish ono whilo tho present Hoard of Commissioners is in power. It is rnraoTed that our friend S. P. Thompson, is to bo a candidate before tho coouty commissioners for the responsible position of county school examiner, as soon as there ’S a Vacancy! Id® made a very onergetio officer when he occupied that position before.

The valuable real estate is offered for sale ou iCT7 and long time, to-wlt:—The northeast (juwter ofseetion 23, the northwest quartet stud northwest quarter of tho northeast quarter of section 24, township 29, range 0, containing 300 acres; and the east half of northeast quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter section If), township XO, range 5, containing 120 acres. Call on, or address, Tuos. J, gU’rrtJjß, 8-25-1 Rensselaer, Irid. or Wm. Hausen y, Xenia, Ohio- ' S. P. Thompson thinks he will get the prise, at tho show to-night, for being the homliest man In Rensselaer. But we will bet our bottom dollar on Ben. Tuteur, our devil, if Ben. #ill only smile on the committee once or twice.

Wc hear that the wide-awake peoplo of Remington arc becoming alive to the necessity of a more commodiousrohool house. A public meeting is called lor tomorrow (Friday) evening, for tho purpose of devising a plan to secure the mcaus for its construction.

It is told us that the members of the Methodist Episcopal congregation arc making arrangements to jnovc their church building from its present location, to a-lot on the corner of Washington And Cullen streets, opposite Mr. J. B. Spangle’s tailor shop. The leading members held! a meeting last Saturday evening and filled the executive board and-decided mpon the action abovo indicated. Lfcjs estimftted that the cost of mpviug and making necessary 'frill not bo far from $1,200.